Jubilant protesters are claiming to have run an alleged sex offender out of town.It followed a night of heightened tension in Cydach which saw a property wrecked and three arrests made.

PEOPLE with disabilities are only half as likely to be educated to degree level as those without a disability, according to latest figures.

Patients losing their sight have said they are being denied access to a drug which could stop them from going blind. Injections of the drug Lucentis are only being made available by a few Local Health Boards in Wales while clinical guidelines are prepared.

Sex offenders are entering the UK after borders to migrants from eastern Europe were opened, a police chief has warned. Terry Grange, the Dyfed-Powys chief constable and Association of Chief Police Officers’ spokesman on child protection, said people may be at risk.

Back-pay claims for thousands of under-paid women workers could land Cardiff council with a bill of up to £30m. The authority could even be forced to delay the opening of the city’s new central library and other major projects if pleas to the Welsh Assembly Government to borrow money to meet the huge bill fall on deaf ears.

Dozens of physiotherapists who trained in Wales but have been unable to find a professional NHS job are to protest outside the Senedd on Tuesday.

Nurses in Wales are to receive their full annual pay increase, ahead of their colleagues in England. The unstaged pay increase of 2.5%, backdated to 1 April, was announced by health minister Edwina Hart, who said they “deserved their pay in full”.

The practice of making children in care in Wales use bin bags to move their possessions has been condemned as humiliating and degrading. A campaign has been launched to end

Efforts to wipe out poverty in Wales have stalled in the last two years, according to a damning new report. Across Wales 640,000 people live in poverty, including 180,000 children, and there is no real sign that things are getting better, according to the think-tank the New Policy Institute.

Efforts to wipe out poverty in Wales have stalled in the last two years, according to a damning new report. Across Wales 640,000 people live in poverty, including 180,000 children, and there is no real sign that things are getting better, according to the think-tank the New Policy Institute.